Mrs. Marchitto’s first graders at Truman School had the absolute best time getting messy and creative last week! They traded standard school supplies for squeeze bottles and rubber bands to tie-dye their very own custom t-shirts.

From folding to squirting bright colors, everyone got to show off their unique style. Now, these awesome shirts are getting ready for the big field day!

Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd-grade monolingual classes at Truman School received a very exciting visit from the Read to Grow Bookmobile!

The inside was packed with literary treasures, and every single student got to climb aboard and pick out a brand-new book to keep and take home. From colorful adventures to exciting new stories, the kids were absolutely beaming showing off their choices.

This special visit was the perfect way to kickstart their home libraries and get everyone hyped up for summer reading! A huge thank you to Read to Grow for helping us foster a love for books in our youngest readers.

Huge congratulations to our incredible Hill Regional Career High School students! 🎉 We are so proud of our very first cohort of pilot intern program students! 🌟 Every single one of them received rave reviews from their internship mentors. It has been incredibly exciting to hear about everything they learned, the skills they built, and the confidence they gained throughout this experience. A massive THANK YOU to all of our amazing site supervisors! Your mentorship, guidance, and dedication made this career preparedness experience so rewarding and beneficial for these future leaders. 💼✨ The future is bright, and these students are just getting started! 🚀

I am delighted to welcome Rosa Ortiz, who will become principal of Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration this summer. Rosa comes to us from the New Britain Public Schools, where she has proven herself a results-driven educational leader. With more than 11 years of administrative experience, she has succeeded in such areas as middle
school operations, instructional leadership, and school improvement. #NHPS

Families at Jepson School will be delighted to know that Assistant Principal Karissa Stolzman will step up to the principal's role as Lesley Stancarone retires this summer. Karissa is known for her work in instructional leadership and staff development, as well as student services and community engagement. #NHPS

I am pleased and proud to introduce Cara Campo as our new principal at Worthington Hooker School. Many of you know Cara from her work as assistant principal at King Robinson and Bishop Woods schools. She is a strategic, equity-driven school leader with a proven record of improving student achievement, strengthening school culture, and leading sustainable school improvement initiatives. #NHPS

The New Haven Public Schools drop-out prevention team visited Mauro Sheridan School to encourage students to finish the year with good attendance. There are 18 more days of school, so show up and stay strong!

NHPS High School Students: Make your voices heard!

Vote for your next Board of Education Student Representative.

📅 Polls Open: Tuesday, May 26th

📅 Polls Close: Thursday, May 28th

Don't miss your chance to vote! Voting will take place at each high school.

Congratulations to our 4 candidates running.
Danielle , Jael, Yoselit, and Michael.

King Robinson partnered with CPEN Inc. and Common Ground Schoolyards Program to bring an exciting Outdoor Day to students last week. Students designed, collaborated, created, planted, constructed, explored, and more!

Fourth grade students in Mrs. Carmo's class at Troup School delivered speeches that they wrote after researching ways to reduce household waste! They did a wonderful job sharing their research with an audience!

Today's AAPI Heritage Month assembly at Clemente Leadership Academy featured "Frogs," a Chinese folk song; poems in Pasto and Arabic; oral histories by students who had immigrated to this country; the Afghan national dance, and a wedding dance. The finale was a dancing dragon!

Last night Sound School celebrated the opening night of student artwork on display at local museum, Lost in New Haven!! The artwork is inspired by artifacts in the museum representing New Haven history.

Our 3rd and 4th-grade bilingual students at Truman School had an amazing field trip to Lighthouse Point Park! They climbed to the top of the historic lighthouse, explored the rocky tide pools, and learned all about local marine life and coastal history.

Such a fun day of hands-on learning in the sunshine!

Watch This Amazing Video "School Is Better With You"

English Version:

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Spanish Version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XemQVvzg6vprWocOwjxfcGRDOMVc6IiD/view?usp=drivesdk

As part of his work leading the Connecticut Career Pathways Commission, former U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited the advanced manufacturing lab at Hillhouse High School. He heard a brief presentation about the Manufacturing Pathway then toured the lab and met students.

On Monday, Fair Haven School hosted a Title One STREAM Event. Students participated in many different tasks, activities, crafts, and more. There were books for the students and families to take home with them as well as art on display demonstrating the many talented students at Fair Haven School. It was a wonderful event! Thank you to all of the students and families who came!

The end of the school year may be approaching, but at NHPS, we know that every single day matters. I was thrilled to join our fantastic team at John S. Martinez School to welcome our students. Starting the day with high energy and big smiles reminds us exactly why we do this work.

🎓 Student voice in action at JSM!

Our middle schoolers didn't just take a school climate survey — they dug into the data. Students unpacked the results, identified our strengths, named the areas where we still have work to do, and came up with tangible solutions for the upcoming year.

When students are trusted with real information and asked real questions, they rise to the moment every time. Proud of our scholars for showing us what student voice really looks like. 💙

While joining our students at the UCLA Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz event, I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Zakai Henderson. Please join me in congratulating Zakai, a Coop student, on earning a spot this summer at GRAMMY Camp in New York City. At NHPS we help students find their passion and support them in pursuing it.